Our purpose is to develop, and train students, staff, and policy practitioners in a new mode of analysis and practice for innovative policies in modernization and sustainable development. With the support of the “21st Century Center of Excellence” program of Japan’s Ministry of Education, Keio University’s Graduate School of Media and Governance at the Shonan-Fujisawa Campus promotes a network of research and training organizations throughout Japan and Asia. This network integrates scientific and practical knowledge in finding “problems” or issues in need of innovative solutions, in identifying and developing the resources to be mobilized for the solutions, and in generating consensus between researchers and target communities in the methods of solving the problems. This network facilitates collaboration among researchers, practitioners and advanced students in realigning existing methods of inquiry so as to find and resolve issues accompanying the rapidly increasing pressures of globalization, demographic change, and environmental change. “Freedom from fear and freedom from want” (UNDP, 1994 Human Development Report) are presumed to represent the essence of human security. We join in this broad definition in order to formulate policy imperatives with our local partners. The three areas or “fields” in which we examine the threats to, and also the resources that can promote, “human security,” are: 1 Cross-border flows of goods, services and people, including the impact of the global market environment as it operates beyond national borders. 2 Regional cooperative frameworks and policy resources, including the social and other changes on a regional scale that affect the welfare of the peoples within the region. 3 Local communities and individuals as the “problem-finding” and “problem-solving” agents, including the various resources for human security as managed in local communities at the sub-national level. This network is the foundation for a new policy innovation “community” in Japan and Asia.

Human Security and Local Initiatives: MEDICI and Infopoverty initiatives

RONCHI, ALFREDO
2003-01-01

Abstract

Our purpose is to develop, and train students, staff, and policy practitioners in a new mode of analysis and practice for innovative policies in modernization and sustainable development. With the support of the “21st Century Center of Excellence” program of Japan’s Ministry of Education, Keio University’s Graduate School of Media and Governance at the Shonan-Fujisawa Campus promotes a network of research and training organizations throughout Japan and Asia. This network integrates scientific and practical knowledge in finding “problems” or issues in need of innovative solutions, in identifying and developing the resources to be mobilized for the solutions, and in generating consensus between researchers and target communities in the methods of solving the problems. This network facilitates collaboration among researchers, practitioners and advanced students in realigning existing methods of inquiry so as to find and resolve issues accompanying the rapidly increasing pressures of globalization, demographic change, and environmental change. “Freedom from fear and freedom from want” (UNDP, 1994 Human Development Report) are presumed to represent the essence of human security. We join in this broad definition in order to formulate policy imperatives with our local partners. The three areas or “fields” in which we examine the threats to, and also the resources that can promote, “human security,” are: 1 Cross-border flows of goods, services and people, including the impact of the global market environment as it operates beyond national borders. 2 Regional cooperative frameworks and policy resources, including the social and other changes on a regional scale that affect the welfare of the peoples within the region. 3 Local communities and individuals as the “problem-finding” and “problem-solving” agents, including the various resources for human security as managed in local communities at the sub-national level. This network is the foundation for a new policy innovation “community” in Japan and Asia.
2003
Research on Human Security Issues
Human Security; Development; Local Initiatives; Archives
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